The utility said it has 2,200 employees on call who will handle service restoration and tree cleanup if needed. Some are even manning call center operations.

“We’re fully staffed, fully ready to go with all the equipment here on the island,” PSEG spokesman Jeff Weir said.

“It’s showtime. We’re ready to go,” David Daly, president and chief operating officer of PSEG Long Island, told 1010 WINS. “We’re confident that we understand what’s coming, and we’ve got a storm process in place that will deal with it very effectively.”

The utility’s fleet of vehicles are fueled, additional supplies and contractors are in place and all available staff are ready, WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs reported.

On Long Island’s east end, it’s the wind and the drifting of snow that is of great concern for those on the front lines of storm clean-up.

“The snow, I’m not worried about. It’s the drifting later tonight when we get 30 to 40 mile an hour winds,” Riverhead Highway Superintendent George Woodson told Xirinachs. “The wind blows, we plow it one minute, you come back a half hour later it’s like you never did it.”

“We are also synced with this event a very high astronomical tide,” Greenwich Emergency Management chief Dan Warzoha said. “This happens to be one of the highest tides that we will experience due to moon cycles during the year of 2014 and, of course our luck being what it is, it comes right at the peak of the storm.”

Warzoha alerted shoreline residents to be especially tuned in once the storm hits. He has urged all Greenwich residents to stay off the roads when the storm hits Thursday evening.

Residents Get Ready

In Yonkers, Joseph Grayson was filling up a gas can Thursday morning to make sure his snowblower will be ready when the storm moves in.